I agree with Cheryl. I am not a fan of Jerry Jones. I don't think SA is a bad market for the NFL. S. TX = Football.
If LA got the Saints, California (population 33,871,648) would have four NFL teams. Texas population: 20,851,820Brilliant logic. We couldn't keep a football team in a big city like LA but we won't give a team to the tenth largest metropolitan area in the country? Stupid, stupid, stupid. I know their thinking is probably that Texas already has two pro football teams, but come on!
What does the NFL gain by putting the Saints in SA?
SA folks already cheer for the cowboys.
I don't cheer for them. Nor the Texans.
I'm a football fan, I have no loyality to any team. If San Antonio gets a team, then I'd support as hard as I do the Spurs.
My father is a Packers fan. But he's not die hard.
New Orelans is smaller than San Antonio, in terms of everything. Population, jobs, economy, corp base, etc.
NFL Commissioner Tagliabue is a very smart man.
New Orleans has big oil there as well as lots of things related to big oil. Lots of old money there, and lots of people that get skyboxes.
Ironically enough, I was in the last NO Saints game ever in one of those big oil company skyboxes.
Big oil?
They have a large oil port, that's it. Name me five "big oil" companies based in New Orleans.
They're largest industry was tourism with 5 billion annually. Compared to San Antonio's second largest industry, tourism, which brings in 8 billion annually. San Antonio's largest industry is biomedial and science which brings in 13 billion annually.
All major oil companies have large offices there.
Anyone who worked for any period of time for any oil company has probably spent time in New Orleans and Houston.
A company doesnt have to be based in a city to have a large corporate setting there.
Around every oil company are many smaller companies that have contracts with them.
Everything shipped to about half the country goes up the Mississippi River.
A lot of the biomed industry in SA is from BAMC and WHMC. As far as big companies go, KCI is probably the biggest at about $1b/year.
Sorry, but SA doesnt make top 20 met-areas in healthcare - and that is our biggest industry.
Until recently, NO only had one team to support and that was only for 8 games a year.
NO also had a big draw SA will probably never have - Harrah's.
Don't try to teach me about the population and industry of my hometown.
I love both NO and SA, but LA is a MUCH better place for a football team than SA. Anyone saying otherwise is stupid. There is much more to be had in LA than in SA.
KCI? More like the UTHSCSA.
Also, I never said it was the largest bioscience industry in the US, but San Antonio's economy is very much diversified. And now with the manufactory industry on the rise, it’s only getting better.
And what is their stock trading at? How many lux boxes do they have for the Spurs? How many season tickets?
Biomed research in SA is at 100mm/year.
UTHSCSA's 2005 budget is ~470mm. KCI's revenue is $1bb+
Its a school, not a company, smart guy.
And UTHSCSA pumps out over one billion annually.
Just our military base alone is bigger than most whole cities combined..
The guy don't like Hispanics is my guess...
Time for a new commish...
But he has a hard on trying to get a team to LA?
Don't call the guy a racist, he's just a complete idiot.
Their budget is half that. Things affiliated with them bring 1b total to the system area, which includes all of south texas. Their total budget is still only 470b.
KCI has a market cap of over $4bil, total revenues over $1.1b with a gross profit of about equal to UTHSC's tota budget.
Again - how many colleges buy season tickets and sky boxes to sporting events? They are a non-profit. They arent going to be one of the main companies to support.
You rag on NO for "only having oil" but you cant show better companies in SA, and when you try, you use a non-profit university.
You arent real, bright. I hope you realize that.
I looked up some of that info and you are right...I suspected it.
The only thing I can see that NO has over San Antonio is MAYBE tourism. It seems more people are aware of the French Quarter than the Riverwalk.
LA already had two teams that it refused to support. If they are so much bigger than why could they not support them?Why in the would anyone put a pro team in SA when you could put one in LA?
The Raiders won a Super Bowl while in LA....and were forced to move because the city refused to show any incentive.
Same with the Rams except they never won a le....theydid go but lost to the Steelers....they made the playoffs frequently....but this so-called "great" city refused to support them as well.
The Texans stinks so that is comprable to the Bucs until recently....especia;ly when Jacksonville got their team.Nearest Football teams?
Atl Falcons
Miami Dolphins
TampaBay Bucs
The Dolphins have been successful...like the Cowboys so you can base that as a comparison
What does Jacksonville have that SA doesn't?
A beach?
SA is bigger in population.
We have proven we can back a pro franchise.
I wonder if the NFL is basing their belief of SA's non-NFL abilities on those other "pro" football leagues that NOONE SUPPORTED....WFL, Riders, USFL?
Also Tagliabue was the lawyer involved the USFL lawsuit with the NFL and holds a grudge because of that?
Arent you the guy who stole pictures, said they were yours and posted them on the nsync message board, then had a complete and total break down when called on it?
What is proven is that a city the size of Jacksonville or SA can well support one major franchise.We have proven we can back a pro franchise.
What is also proven is that cities our size struggle to support multiple teams. (New Orleans with the Jazz/Saints and Saints/Hornets.)
I wasn't using the UTHSCSA as an example of a company (because its not) that would buy lux. boxes or whatever.
You said KCI was the largest economic stimulator. Granted you did say company but the UTHSCSA again, pumps in over 1 billion annually. Those poeple who make a living being employed by the UTHSCSA but tickets as well. Which, you know, helps make the Dome look more filled.
New Orleans is not our size.
Denver has a population of barely 400,000 more than San Antonio.
Buffalo? They have an NFL and NHL team. Pittsburgh with its NFL and NHL team. Indy with its NFL and NBA team
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Where is this South Texas mecca with streets paved with gold and buxom senoritas with PhD's raking in six figure incomes TheWriter speaks of?
Next to the city of white guys pretending to be big black guys on the internet.
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